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For the last 12 months, AMD has had the Radeon HD 6970 be its premier single GPU graphics card, competing head to head with the GeForce GTX 570 and at times challenging the mighty GTX 580. For about $369 today, you can still get one hell of a graphics...

Thanks to the more recent dropped prices for the Radeon HD 7000 series (which includes the regular non-GHz edition), the Radeon HD 7970 has become an attractive card for the ones that want to upgrade from the previous generation. Compared to the...

Whichever your preference of graphics card manufacturer, whether you sit with the green team or the red, both factions will serve you extremely well. If I were forced to choose between the two as a single graphics card, the KFA2 GTX680 wins out. It...

It has been roughly 18 months since AMD launched its last family of graphics processing units (GPUs) but we now finally have some hot new silicon from the California-based semiconductor company.Codenamed Southern Islands (replacing last season’s...

Does Apple's delay of the next Mac Pro portend its impending doom? Will it go the way of the Xserve? As of this writing, it's been 584 days since the Mac Pro was updated. We remain hopeful. If there is to be a 2012 Mac Pro, it is likely that the...

With a new architecture, the introduction of the 28 nm manufacturing process and over four billion transistors, the Tahiti GPU and the Radeon HD 7970 have been the cause of much excitement. Has AMD managed to do as well as it did with the launch of...

AMD retakes the crown for single-chip gaming-graphics performance with the Radeon HD 7970. With its high price, however, and the fact that some of its future-looking features are far over the horizon, discerning gamers may want to wait before...

With the release of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 it’s clear that AMD has once again regained the single-GPU performance crown. But while the 7970’s place in the current GPU hierarchy is well established, we’re still trying to better...

The AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card based on the Tahiti processor with the Graphics Core Next architecture is undoubtedly the fastest single-GPU solution available today. And it will remain such until Nvidia’s next-generation Kepler-based...

Obviously when testing a set up this extreme the conclusion is pretty academic.No-one in their right mind would run Quadfire. It takes too much power, we needed two Corsair AX1200 PSUs for this test. It produces too much heat. It's stupidly...

With the last generation of video cards from AMD and NVIDIA, a lot of people felt a bit hard done by. Sure, the GTX 480 to GTX 580 and HD 5970 to HD 6970 brought with it some nice performance gains, but there wasn't the technological leap that we...

We all knew that AMD were going to launch the 7000 series graphics cards, but not many anticipated that it would be quite this soon, with AMD bringing the date forward from the 9th January 2012 to 22nd December 2011.By AMD bringing the date forward, the...

Loaded with features and new technologies, the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is the fastest single-GPU video card you can currently buy.ProsBest-in-class video performance Low all-around power usage ConsExpensive Performance advantage edges off at highest...

AMD has managed to engineer a card with a significant improvement in performance in comparison to the previous generation at the same time as including some innovations that reduce energy consumption significantly. It is nevertheless advisable to wait...

First let’s talk about the numbers, as we saw some pretty compelling frame rates from the Radeon HD 7970. In the dozen games we tested with, the Radeon HD 7970 was on average 42% faster than the Radeon HD 6970. That’s a mind blowing result...

While AMD and NVIDIA are consistently revising their GPU architectures, for the most part the changes they make are just that: revisions. It’s only once in a great while that a GPU architecture is thrown out entirely, which makes the arrival of a...

As the first 28nm GPU, the HD 7970 3GB was always going to be exciting; with such a significant step down in transistor size and subsequent increase in stream processors and clock speeds, the GPU was always going to have enormous performance...